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Coimbatore Lok Sabha election: TN BJP chief K Annamalai seeks maiden term in Parliament
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Summary
37 candidates are in fray from Coimbatore. The fight is majorly between BJP’s Annamalai and DMK candidate Ganapathi P. Rajkumar.
The Coimbatore constituency in Tamil Nadu recorded 58% voting till 5 pm. Overall, the state recorded 62.08% voter turnout in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Coimbatore is one of the prestigious parliamentary seats. State Bharatiya Janata Party chief K Annamalai is aiming for his maiden Lok Sabha term in 2024.
The Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat has the third highest number of voters after Sriperumbudur and Chennai South, making it one of the most significant electoral districts in Tamil Nadu. PR Natarajan, the sitting MP of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is not contesting this time.
List of Candidates
As many as 37 candidates are contesting from the Coimbatore seat. Here’s a list of top five among them:
| Party | Candidate |
| AIADMK | Singai G. Ramachandran |
| BJP | K. Annamalai |
| DMK | Ganapathi P. Rajkumar |
| NTK | Kalamani Jeganathan |
| Independent | Annadurai R |
2019 Lok Sabha election Result
In 2019, PR Natarajan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the elections after he received 46% of the total votes.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |
| CPI(M) | PR Natarajan | 571,150 (45.85%) | |
| BJP | CP Radhakrishnan | 3,92,007 (31.47%) | |
| MNM | R Mahendran | 1,45,104 (11.65%) | |
| NTK | S Kalyana Sundaram | 60,519 (4.86%) | |
| Independent | NR Appathurai | 38,061 (3.06%) | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 23,190 (1.86%) | |
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